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Plusia moneta in the Peterborough District. — In answer to 

 Mr. G. T. Nichol's query, it may interest him to know that on 

 July 29th, 1904, I captured one specimen of P. moneta at Hght at 

 Uppingham, Eutland. In North Cambridgeshire Mr. J. C. F. Fryer, 

 of Chatteris, has never found it, but on July 27th of this year I took 

 a specimen at Little Shelford, and I believe the species has been 

 previously recorded not infrequently in South Cambridgeshire. — C. E. 

 Eaven ; 7, Durham Terrace, London, W. 



Plusia moneta in Northamptonshire. — Eeferring to Mr. G. T. 

 Nichols's note in the August ' Entomologist ' on the occurrence of 

 Plusia vioneta in Peterborough, it may interest your readers to know 

 that the species was fairly common this year in my garden, where I 

 secured both larvae and imagines. The cocoons were also fairly 

 numerous this year in the garden at Tring Park. — N. Charles 

 EoTHSCHiLD ; Ashton Wold, Oundle, Northants, August 11th, 1908. 



Senta maritima, &c., in Sussex. — In reference to Mr. "Wight- 

 man's note in the August ' Entomologist,' I should like to say that I 

 captured two fine specimens of S. maritima in a small reed-bed near 

 Eye on August 3rd, 1907, and noted their capture in the Annual 

 Eeport of the Hastings and St. Leonards Natural History Society. 

 The species had not been previously recorded from the district. From 

 the same reed-bed — some ten yards wide and forty yards long, and 

 quite isolated — I have also taken L. straminea, C. 'phragmitidis, and 

 N. cjeminiiyuncta. — C. B. Eaven ; 7, Durham Terrace, London, W. 



CosMiA pyralina AT CHESTER. — On the night of August 3rd I 

 captured, at one of the Chester electric lamps, a fine fresh specimen 

 of Gosmia 'jyi/ralina. This is the second record of the moth for the 

 district, and it is curious that I should have been favoured with the 

 first just twenty years ago (see Entom. vol. xxi. p. 318). — J. Arklb ; 

 Chester. 



Calamia phragmitidis in Sussex. — I find that this species has 

 not been previously recorded as occurring in Sussex. It may be of 

 interest therefore to say that it was found by Messrs. Jarvis, Sharp, 

 and myself to be quite plentiful in the valley of the Cuckmere and on 

 the Pevensey Marshes, while a few specimens were taken on the 

 Ouse near Barcombe. — A. J. Wightman ; Ailsa Craig, Lewes. 



Amphidasys betularia var. doubledayaria in Eutland. — Those 

 of your readers who study the distribution of this melanic form in 

 Britain wnll be interested to hear that this summer I took a female 

 in this truly rural district of Eutland. I also bred a specimen last 

 May from a larva found on black poplar the previous September. So 

 far I have not come across the type. — Harold Eaynor ; Stoke Dry 

 Eectory, Uppingham, August 13th, 1908. 



DicYCLA 00 in Eichmond Park, Surrey. — I took two fine speci- 

 mens of D. 00 in the park on July 11th, and saw two more examples, 

 which I failed to capture. I understand that others have also 

 obtained this species in the same locality. I may add that, with the 

 exception of one specimen at light four years ago, D. oo has not been 



